CoderKat @ CoderKat @lemm.ee

I write bugs and sometimes features! I'm also @CoderKat@kbin.social.

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You can get laptop "hubs" which usually have a few USB ports, a video connector or two (often HDMI and/or DisplayPort), ethernet, and some will function as a power cable, too (one of mine does and one doesn't).

Fuck Biden. He's the old school "tough on crime", cop bootlicker type. The only thing he has going for him is that any candidate the GOP puts forth (especially Trump) is even worse on all those things.

Yeah, it's not the Democrats who focus so much on trans people. It's republicans that are passing laws to try to ban their existence and wellbeing.

It's bizarre that there's people acting like Democrats are all about identity politics when it's the core piece of the GOP's platform to the point that they barely seem to have any policies beyond it (and the occasional "reduces taxes on the rich and corporations -- it'll trickle down, we promise!"

I still use Reddit to read episode discussions of TV shows and such. Those largely don't exist here, outside of a handful of shows. And probably would struggle to take off even if the threads existed, as they need a lot of people and good SEO.

You can't test it. It's Lemmy.ml that has the extremely strict filter.

Even without robbing people, video games are often heavily oriented around plundering abandoned dungeons. Not a lot of those in the real world. Heck, they don't even make sense in game. If there's dungeons full of gold, surely they'd be plundered to death by now? A couple of draegr aren't gonna keep people away from life changing wealth.

For games with no combat, the economy is usually just hyper exaggerated. Like Stardew Valley. You can spend an in-game month or two farming by hand with no automation and you'll make enough money to double the size of your house.

Do people even use that? I've literally never. Even if I want to search something, I'd rather just use my browser where I have tabs. Relatedly, why don't more apps have tabs? Like apps for Reddit or Lemmy. Literally none that I ever tried have tabs. I know they don't perform that great, but not even an option?

Yeah, what the fuck is that number? Are we just straight up lying in court now?

I decided to see how long it would take me to find out how to change it with no help. Took about 30 seconds. In mobile Chrome, it's basically the first setting on the settings page. So the steps are (1) open chrome, (2) hamburger menu, (3) settings, (4) search engine. Even if I have to count turning my phone on and opening Chrome if it wasn't on my home page, it still wouldn't even add up to 10 steps.

I checked Firefox and it has one extra step. There's still a search option literally at the top of the settings, just it goes to a page with multiple search related options (default search engine is still at the top). The fact that it worded it as "default" also made me immediately realize you can tap the Google icon in the address bar to choose another option, which must be what you used. 2 steps in that case.

I agree for some definitions of rural, but I don't know if you have an idea on just how remote rural can mean. Try looking around northern Ontario in Google maps if you've never done it before. It's fascinating. So many tiny towns that are only reachable by boat or plane. They're not islands, but they might as well be, with how isolated they are.

But even for towns that aren't nearly so remote, no company is going to lay down quality infrastructure to accommodate every random farm that is spread several dozens of kilometers away from the nearest city. Even without capitalism, it's an expensive use of resources to connect isolated areas.

I am wet, so it must be raining.

Or at the very least, lower level employees often don't get to give big ideas. A big way to get your ideas listened to is to get promoted in the first place. Small ideas only do so much. Sometimes there's big, systemic problems that need big ideas to fix.

Not just a path to advance, but a path that feels fair and is faster than changing jobs. A lot of places that do pay well still make it easier to go up a level as an external hire than they do for an internal promotion. In other words, it's easier to get "promoted" by switching jobs.

Which is pretty weird. Companies would rather make the decision based off a few hours of interviews for someone who knows nothing about their company, over years of data for someone who knows the company well. I think it's partly "grass is always greener" and also partly companies wanting to pay people less when they already employ them. They'll pay more for external hires cause they want to get em, but once they're there, there's less reason to pay more.

And in general, I think younger people are more willing to take risks. Changing jobs can be annoying. You have to start from scratch with learning everything, getting to know your coworkers, potentially moving, etc. But on the other hand, a new job can typically give a pay increase (which young people especially need). In many jobs, the only way to get a decent pay increase is to jump ship.

Happened to me, too. Some unknown people caused damage to a common room and they billed everyone in the building. I tried to email about it, but they didn't budge. I felt I had to pay it because the university threatens to withhold transcripts and stuff if you have outstanding fines.

Naw, her music has only gotten better over time. I think your biases are showing.

Yeah, I think LLMs and AI art have overdominated the discourse to the degree that some people think they're the only form of AI that exists, ignoring things like text translation, the autocompletion of your phone keyboard, Photoshop intelligent eraser, etc.

Some forms of AI are debatable of their value (especially in their current form). But there's other types of AI that most people consider highly useful and I think we just forget about it because the controversial types are more memorable.

Ahaha I don't even know what that word was supposed to be and how it ended up as "white". I meant to say "the OP".

I think the white is referring to minorities being scapegoated, though. While absolutely some people vote against their best interests, they often don't have the numbers to make change themselves (eg, trans and NB people are maybe 1% of the population but getting severely attacked right now) or the system is constantly trying to screw them over (eg, black people are a sizable chunk of the population, but there's countless efforts to restrict their ability to vote and keep them poor).

Yeah, now would you know when you cross the border if there wasn't that orange-sepia tint?

Not just to literally recognize people who don't belong or to act as a financial barrier. Some of these dress codes I think are there to give a feeling of who belongs. They want people to feel stuff like, "wow, these people are so dressed up and I am never dressed up, so they must be above me".

Traditionally, politics has been a thing for the upper class and intertia on such things doesn't make it easy for them to change. Dress codes in politics is just another way to make the idea of being a politician feel like something only for the upper class. Low and middle class people aren't supposed to feel like they can be politicians. Politicians aren't supposed to be too relatable. Even when trying to be relatable, they still often act like they are better than you.